Two reports published on allegations of forced birth control in Greenland found that the rights of Inuit women and girls were violated in the 1960s and 1970s. But Greenland’s government said the current findings do not allow a definitive legal conclusion on whether the case can be defined as genocide.

Justice Minister Marianne Paviasen said on Friday that the reports differed sharply from one another, making it impossible for the government to reach a final conclusion. The reports were released nearly a year after Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen apologized to Greenlandic Inuit women and their families for systemic discrimination.

According to national archive records, between 1966 and 1970, about 4,500 Greenlandic women and girls, some as young as 13, were fitted with intrauterine devices as part of a birth control program run by Danish doctors. In recent years, many women have said the procedures were carried out without their knowledge or consent. The scale of the program sharply slowed population growth on the island, with the fertility rate falling from seven children per woman in 1966 to 2.3 by 1974.

Two members of the four-expert panel stepped down to produce separate reports. Alaska-based lawyer Dalee Sambo Dorough and University of Copenhagen law professor Miriam Cullen, who remained on the panel, concluded that Inuit women’s rights had been violated. However, they said genocide could not be determined solely on the basis of birth control practices, though some other facts outside the report’s scope — such as Inuit children being taken from their families to be raised by Danish families — could be assessed separately by a court.

The other report, written by former Danish Institute for Human Rights head Jonas Christoffersen and psychologist Jensine Nedergaard, who worked in Greenland, acknowledged that the women had been wronged but said the full extent of the mistreatment could not be established. It also concluded that there was no evidence any authority or health worker intended to destroy Greenland’s population.

Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said a reconciliation commission would be set up as part of the process. Denmark has also passed a compensation law providing 300,000 Danish kroner to each woman affected by the practice. Even so, some victims criticized the fact that no Greenlandic Inuit representatives were included on the panel, while others said the insertion of an IUD without their consent had permanently affected their lives and ability to have children.

Greenland was a Danish colony until 1953 and gained home rule in 1979. Copenhagen continued to oversee the island’s health system until 1992.